"I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names.” -Susan Sontag

Best Sound Editing & Mixing
Godzilla
Interstellar (I really liked the sound mix! I know it was divisive, but it worked for me.)
Birdman
Maleficent
Edge of Tomorrow
Gone Girl
Into the Woods
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men
Captain America

Best Quote
"I'm pretty sure the answer is "I am Groot."" - Peter, Guardians
“Did he just throw my cat out of the window?” - Kovacks, Grand Budapest
"There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity." - Grand Budapest Hotel
“In
case it slipped your mind, Piz is the one without the baggage and the
drama.” “I will say this for him: he almost never gets charged with
murder.” – Wallace & Mac, Veronica Mars
“In a lesser known epic poem, Dante’s Inferno 2: Hell Freezes Over, ten
years after escaping the Nine Circles, Dante returns, you know, for old
time’s sake.” – Veronica, Veronica Mars
"If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket." - Lou, Nightcrawler"Dear White People, the minimum
requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has been raised to two.
Sorry, your weed man Tyrone doesn’t count." - Samantha, Dear White People
"What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even
though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a
cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it
was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could
go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What
if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin
taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no?
What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't
have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed?
What if I already was?" - Wild
"Where are my lesbians?" - Pride
"I think forgiveness has been highly underrated." - Calvary
And pretty much all of TARS.

Other Superlatives:Best Foreign Film: We Are the Best! (Runner Up: Harmony Lessons. I think I included the Strange Little Cat in last year's list, but if not, then that.)Best Documentary: The Overnighters (Runner Up: Island of Lemurs) (I still really want to see Virunga, Citizenfour, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Mankamana, National Gallery, the Internet's Own Boy, Finding Vivian Maier)Best Female Action Star: Emily Blunt - Edge of TomorrowBest Trailer for a 2015 film:Mad Max Fury RoadBest Action Scene: the Tunnel scene - Snowpiercer (Runner Up: the many deaths of Tom Cruise montage - Edge of Tomorrow)Best destruction of San Francisco: Godzilla (Runner Up: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't: X-Men Days of Future Past (there were so many right elements here, but the final mix just felt so hollow to me.) (Runner Up: Foxcatcher)Best Scene in an otherwise okay film:the HALO jump in Godzilla (Runner up: Quicksilver, X-Men Days of Future Past)Most wasted potential of an idea: The Sacrament. A horror film basically recounting Jonestown should have been so much more horrifying.Most wasted potential (runner up): Into the Woods. Kill Rapunzel, cast a teenage Red, fix the set and CGI. Anna Kendrick and Emily Blunt were good, Chris Pine was great, and a movie adaptation of Sondheim should be sublime. Worst Scene in an otherwise sometimes brilliant, sometimes not so great film: Matt Damon's arc in InterstellarBest Chase: Jeff Goldblum & Willem Dafoe - Grand Budapest HotelBest Cameo: Justin Long (Veronica Mars)Best Breakthrough: Andre Holland (haven't also seen Gugu, Jack O'Connell, Katherine Waterston, etc.)Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): Whiplash (runners up: Calvary, Night Moves)Worst Ending: Words and Pictures. I swear to god the last scene was left in by accident - it's so bad. Creepiest Teacher: Alison Pill, Snowpiercer Best Priest fight: Calvary Best indication Charlie Day can make me laugh in anything: the Lego MovieBest Dance: Come and Get Your Love - Guardians of the GalaxyBest Villain: Fletcher, WhiplashMost Timid Narrative Choices: The Imitation GameBest Impressions: The Trip to ItalyMost WTF (bad): Tip Top Most WTF (good): A Field in EnglandBest Sidekick: Black Widow, Captain America (Runner Up: Rocket, Guardians of the Galaxy)Worst Paycheck Performance: Gary Oldman - Dawn of the Planet of the ApesBest Sociopath: Lou Bloom - Nightcrawler (Runner Up: Amy Dunne - Gone Girl)Best Cheekbones: MaleficentMost Overrated: The Lego movieBest Taylor Swift shoutout: Dear White People Best Tree: Cinerella's ghost mother willow - Into the Woods, (Runner Up: Groot)Best Cat: Gone Girl Best Fish: SnowpiercerBest Raven: Sam Riley - Maleficent Best Guinea Pig: Cashew (House of Cards)Best Ode to Night: Only Lovers Left AliveBest TV Show: Hannibal BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE SAID ENOUGH. Seriously, the things Bryan Fuller and his merry band of psychopaths are doing at Hannibal rival anything in theaters. Petition to get it onto IMAX screens, too!